In this Jan. 12, 2017 photo, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani talks with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)In this Jan. 12, 2017 photo, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani talks with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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President Trump might have reimbursed his lawyer for a hush-money payment to a porn star and then possibly lied about it, but at least he's off the hook for campaign finance violations, according to Rudy Giuliani's startling admission on Sean Hannity's show Wednesday night. Analysts say he might be wrong about that last part. Lawrence Noble at the Campaign Legal Center tells the Washington Post that the timing of Michael Cohen's $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election strongly points to it being campaign-related, making it an unreported "excessive contribution" to the campaign, whether or not it was repaid from Trump's personal funds. He adds that the funneling of the money through legal fees shows "intent to hide the source, which could make it knowing and willful, which is criminal." In other coverage:

What was Giuliani thinking? Sol Wisenberg, who served as deputy independent counsel during the Kenneth Starr investigation of Bill Clinton, says he is perplexed by the strategy of Giuliani, who recently joined Trump's legal team. It "obviously increases the president's exposure to potential campaign finance violations, but it also makes him look terrible," he tells the AP, adding: "Maybe it's been too long since he's been in the criminal justice field."

So Mueller is now chasing skanky meat Holes; why? Because after more than 7 million dollars spent about two years the only real proven Russian connection is Hillary, OBAMA and the DNC?

nicky karunarathna

May 3, 2018 10:00 PM CDT

Human live for knowledge, food, and sex. Animal live for food and sex and procreation only keeping their numbers grow. The commercial sex is not for a smart intelligent man anyway. The smart intelligent man should enjoy consensual sex, if both parties agree to enjoy sensuality of sex with eye to eye, skin to skin, enjoying curves and curvatures and symmetric of human body contours. Otherwise, what's the point of having a porn star for two minutes job? So, in this sense, Trump has in fact, disobeyed the rules of morality and ethics and also political culture of democratically accepted values. Over to you legal experts!

Aka Mogg

May 3, 2018 3:39 PM CDT

The truth is, we as human beings have only a limited obligation to tell the truth. Truth is, truth is NOT always the best policy. Truth is, not telling the truth is not an absolute measure of integrity. Truth is, the truth is just another tool for those liars who want you not to notice how they are deceiving you, robbing you, or sticking their hand down your pants.